When given the choice . . . These days, everyone gets to choose their phone company. Before building our home in 1994, we had the rare option of choosing our power company. We were at the very end of not one, but two power lines: one from Rutherford EMC and another from a larger electric company. Our other home was serviced by REMC, and we had noticed that we had fewer and shorter outages than our friends and neighbors served by the other company. When the REMC representative came to check, he agreed that since both lines crossed our property, we could probably be served by either. We chose REMC. They even ran us a longer-than-usual underground service to avoid overhead lines through the woods. REMC’s policy of maintaining right of ways, plus the ability of a smaller local company to respond quickly in an emergency, have paid off many times for us. In the wake of the December 2002 ice storm and an earlier one, we were out of power only for a few hours. Our next-door neighbors who were not supplied by REMC were without electricity for four days. Thanks, REMC. |
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